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Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts is a provider of tertiary education in Hong Kong. Located near the north coast of Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island, apart from the main campus in Wanchai, Bethanie, the site of the institutions Landmark Heritage Campus in Pokfulam, has housed the School of Film and Television since 2007. Its educational policy reflects the diversity of Hong Kong with an emphasis on Chinese and Western traditions. Every year, the Academy enrols about 750 students for its programmes and around 770 students for its Junior Music Programme. Furthermore, its extensive EXCEL programme offers part-time personal enrichment courses, the government responded with a proposal to develop an academy for the performing arts. On 15 September 1981 the Jockey Club formally announced plans to build the academy on a piece of vacant land in Wan Chai, granted by the government, the academy was established in 1984. In the early 1990s, the APA became a degree-granting institution, the main campus was designed by local firm Simon Kwan and Associates, who were among six firms invited to submit designs in a limited competition. It comprises the Academy Block, the Theatre Block, and the Administration Block, the Administration Block was ready for occupation in July 1985. The Academy Block was formally opened on 18 September 1985 by Governor Edward Youde, the Theatre Block was opened by the Duchess of Kent on 3 February 1986, the same day the inaugural opera season began as part of the 1986 Hong Kong Arts Festival. The 1981 model produced for the competition is now held by the M+ museum. In 2006 the academy established a campus at Béthanie in Pok Fu Lam. It mainly houses specialist facilities for the School of Film and Television, the original campus was designed for a student population of 600 students. The academy has been facing space constraints as enrolment has gradually risen, the 334 Scheme further exacerbated the problem. In June 2012 the Legislative Council approved funding of $444.8 million for construction of a nine-storey annex block, the expansion will house classrooms, studios, laboratories, music rooms, offices, workshops and support facilities. The academy is working with the West Kowloon Cultural District, which is construction, on education plans. The academy is governed under the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Ordinance, under the legislation the academy is mandated to foster and provide for training, education and research in the performing arts and related technical arts. The academy is funded through tuition fees as well as a subvention provided by the Home Affairs Bureau and this arrangement differs from most other post-secondary institutions in the territory, which are funded by the University Grants Committee. Kevin Thompson was director of the academy from 2004 to 2012, Thompson also initiated planning for campus expansion

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Wan Chai
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Wan Chai is a metropolitan area situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. Its other boundaries are Canal Road to the east, Arsenal Street to the west, the area north of Gloucester Road is often referred to as Wan Chai North. Wan Chai is one of the busiest commercial areas in Hong Kong with offices of many small, Wan Chai North features office towers, parks, hotels and an international conference and exhibition centre. As one of the first areas developed in Hong Kong, the locale is densely populated yet with noticeable residential zones facing urban decay, arousing considerable public concern, the government has undertaken several urban renewal projects in recent years. There are many landmarks and skyscrapers within the area, most notably the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Central Plaza. Wan Chai originally began as Ha Wan, literally meaning a ring or lower circuit. As one of the earliest developed areas in Hong Kong along the Victoria Harbour, Central, Sheung Wan, Wan Chai literally means a cove in Cantonese from the shape of its coastal line. The area is no longer a cove, however, due to city development. Wan Chai was first home to the many Chinese villagers living along the coastlines in proximity to Hung Shing Temple. Most of them were fishermen, who worked around the area near Hung Shing Temple overlooking the entire harbour, Hung Shing Ye, the God of the Sea, was one of the deities worshiped by the locals. With the growth of the British Hong Kong administration, centred in old Victoria, Wan Chai attracted those on the fringes of society, such as coolie workers, a focal point of development at that time was Spring Gardens, a red-light zone. By the 1850s the area was becoming a Chinese residential area. There were dockyards on Ship Street and McGregor Street for building and repairing ships. The edge of Sun Street, Moon Street and Star Street was the site of the first power station in Hong Kong, operated by the Hongkong Electric Company. One of the first water-front hospitals was the Seamans Hospital, built in 1843 and it was then sold to the British Royal Navy in 1873 and subsequently redeveloped into the Royal Naval Hospital. After the Second World War, the hospital was revitalised as the Ruttonjee Hospital, the district was home to several well-known schools. One of these schools was established by the traditional teacher. Started as a shushu in 1919, the school was renamed Dunmei School in 1934 after him and it taught classical Chinese writings and Confucian ethics

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Hong Kong
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Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the Pearl River Delta of East Asia. Macau lies across the delta to the west, and the Chinese province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north. With a total area of 1,106 square kilometres. Hong Kong was later occupied by Japan during World War II until British control resumed in 1945, under the principle of one country, two systems, Hong Kong maintains a separate political and economic system from China. Except in military defence and foreign affairs, Hong Kong maintains its independent executive, legislative, in addition, Hong Kong develops relations directly with foreign states and international organisations in a broad range of appropriate fields. Hong Kong is one of the worlds most significant financial centres, with the highest Financial Development Index score and consistently ranks as the worlds most competitive and freest economic entity. As the worlds 8th largest trading entity, its legal tender, Hong Kongs tertiary sector dominated economy is characterised by simple taxation with a competitive level of corporate tax and supported by its independent judiciary system. However, while Hong Kong has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world and it has a very high Human Development Index ranking and the worlds longest life expectancy. Over 90% of the population use of well-developed public transportation. Seasonal air pollution with origins from neighbouring areas of Mainland China. Hong Kong was officially recorded in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking to encompass the entirety of the island, before 1842, the name referred to a small inlet—now Aberdeen Harbour, literally means Little Hong Kong)—between Aberdeen Island and the southern coast of Hong Kong Island. Aberdeen was a point of contact between British sailors and local fishermen. Detailed and accurate romanisation systems for Cantonese were available and in use at the time, fragrance may refer to the sweet taste of the harbours fresh water estuarine influx of the Pearl River or to the incense from factories lining the coast of northern Kowloon. The incense was stored near Aberdeen Harbour for export before Hong Kong developed Victoria Harbour, the name had often been written as the single word Hongkong until the government adopted the current form in 1926. Nevertheless, a number of century-old institutions still retain the form, such as the Hongkong Post, Hongkong Electric. As of 1997, its name is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China. This is the title as mentioned in the Hong Kong Basic Law. Hong Kong has carried many nicknames, the most famous among those is the Pearl of the Orient, which reflected the impressive nightscape of the citys light decorations on the skyscrapers along both sides of the Victoria Harbour

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Jackie Chan
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Chan Kong-sang, SBS, MBE, PMW, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. In his movies, he is known for his fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. He has trained in Kung Fu and Hapkido and he has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in over 150 films. Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars, and he has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. He is a trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums. He is also a notable philanthropist, in 2015, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth to be $350 million. Chan was born on 7 April 1954, in British Hong Kong, as Chan Kong-sang, to Charles and Lee-Lee Chan and his mother or parents nicknamed him Pao-pao Chinese, 炮炮 because the energetic child was always rolling around. His parents worked for the French ambassador in Hong Kong, Chan attended the Nah-Hwa Primary School on Hong Kong Island, where he failed his first year, after which his parents withdrew him from the school. In 1960, his father emigrated to Canberra, Australia, to work as the cook for the American embassy, and Chan was sent to the China Drama Academy. Chan trained rigorously for the decade, excelling in martial arts. He eventually became part of the Seven Little Fortunes, a group made up of the schools best students. Chan became close friends with group members Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. After entering the industry, Chan along with Sammo Hung got the opportunity to train in hapkido under the grand master Jin Pal Kim. Jackie Chan also trained in other styles of arts such as Karate, Judo, Taekwondo. He began his career by appearing in roles at the age of five as a child actor. At age eight, he appeared with some of his fellow Little Fortunes in the film Big, Chan appeared with Li again the following year, in The Love Eterne and had a small role in King Hus 1966 film Come Drink with Me. In 1971, after an appearance as an extra in another kung fu film, A Touch of Zen, at seventeen, he worked as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon under the stage name Chan Yuen Lung. He received his first starring role later that year in Little Tiger of Canton that had a release in Hong Kong in 1973

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Anita Mui
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Anita Mui Yim-fong was a Hong Kong singer and actress making major contributions to the Cantopop music scene and receiving numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was regarded as a Cantopop diva. Mui once held a concert in Hammersmith, London, England, where she was dubbed the Madonna of Asia. That title stayed with her throughout her career, and has used as a comparison for both Eastern and Western media. In the 1980s, the style of music was revolutionised by Muis wild dancing. She was famed for her outrageous costumes and high-power performances in combination with contralto vocals and her fan base reached far beyond Hong Kong into many parts of Asia, including Taiwan, mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia, and other countries as well. In the Hong Kong entertainment industry, where stars often rise and fall quickly and her career came to a halt abruptly in 2003 when she announced that she had cervical cancer. She died later that year at the age of 40 and her continuing commemoration by the Hong Kong entertainment industry was due not only to her music and film legacies, but also her involvement in charity and humanitarian work. Mui experienced much hardship in her childhood and she was the youngest daughter in a family of four children. Her elder sister, Ann Mui, was also a singer, the children were raised in a single parent family. In some of her interviews, Mui mentioned that she had never met her father and this meant that she had to help provide for her siblings at an early age, dropping out of school at the age of 13 or 14. More hardship followed the family when the bar that her mother ran was destroyed by a fire, to make a living, Mui entered the show business at around the age of four with her sister Ann. She performed Chinese operas and pop songs in theatres and on the streets, both Mui and her elder sister Ann performed in practically any nightclub that offered them a chance to make a living. At the age of 15, due to the frequency of performances at different venues that she had, following the advice of the doctor, she took a year off and to keep herself occupied, she attended art lessons with her cousin. After a year, she started performing again despite the change in her vocal range and her newly found distinctive voice became an important trademark in her entire career. In 1982, as encouraged by her sister, Mui competed in the first New Talent Singing Awards and it was there that Mui got a big break by emerging champion with the song The Windy Season, originally sung by Paula Tsui, beating over 3,000 contestants. Despite her title as new talent at that time, she had already been a singer for more than 10 years from street, as an award to winning the New Talent contest at the time, Muis first album was released with the local record company Capital Artists. Her debut album Debt Heart drew a response from the audience

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Donnie Yen
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Donnie Yen, also known as Yen Ji-dan, is a Chinese actor, martial artist, film director, producer, action choreographer, and multiple-time world wushu tournament champion. Yen is credited by many for contributing to the popularisation of the martial arts style known as Wing Chun. He played Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2008 film Ip Man and this has led to an increase in the number of people taking up Wing Chun, leading to hundreds of new Wing Chun schools being opened up in mainland China and other parts of Asia. Ip Chun, the eldest son of Ip Man, even mentioned that he is grateful to Yen for making his family art popular, Yen is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts into the mainstream of Chinese culture by choreographing MMA in many of his recent films. Seen as one of the most popular stars in Asia of the early 2000s. Yen earned HK$220 million from four films and six advertisements in 2013, Yen was born in Guangzhou, China. Yens mother, Bow-sim Mark, is a Fu Style Wudangquan and Tai Chi grandmaster, when he was two years old, his family moved to Hong Kong and then to Boston when he was 11. His younger sister, Chris Yen, is also a martial artist and actress, at a young age, under the influence of his mother, Yen developed an interest in martial arts and began experimenting with various styles, including tai chi and other traditional Chinese martial arts. Yen then started karate when he was nine, Yen focused on practising wushu seriously at the age of fourteen after dropping out of school. His parents were concerned that he was spending too much time in Bostons Combat Zone, when Yen decided to return to the United States, he made a side-trip to Hong Kong, where he met action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. Yen finally started taekwondo at around the age of sixteen, Yen also came from a family of musicians. His mother is a soprano, in addition to being a martial arts teacher in Boston, from a young age, he was taught by his parents to play musical instruments, including the piano. He also knows hip-hop dancing and breakdancing, Yens first step into the film industry was in 1984 when he landed his first starring role in the 1984 film Drunken Tai Chi. After filming Drunken Tai Chi and Tiger Cage, Yen made his role as General Nap-lan in Once Upon a Time in China II. Yen had a role in the film Iron Monkey in 1993. Yen and Li appeared together again in the 2002 film, Hero, where Yen played a fighter who fought with Lis character. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2003 Academy Awards. In 1995, Yen starred as Chen Zhen in the television series Fist of Fury produced by ATV, Yen reprised his role as Chen Zhen in the 2010 film Legend of the Fist, The Return of Chen Zhen

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Hard Boiled
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The film features Tequila, whose partner is killed in a tea house gunfight with a small army of gangsters. One of the mobs high-ranking assassins is the undercover cop Alan, the film leads up to a climax in a hospital, where the two must rescue innocent civilians and new born babies from the maternity ward while fighting off dozens of mob hitmen. Hard Boiled was John Woos last Hong Kong film before his transition to Hollywood, after making films that glamorized gangsters, Woo wanted to make a Dirty Harry styled film to glamorize the police. After the death of screenwriter Barry Wong, the screenplay underwent constant changes during filming. New characters such as Mad Dog and Mr. Woo were introduced, the film was released in Hong Kong in 1992 to generally positive audience reception, but it was not as commercially successful as Woos previous action films, such as A Better Tomorrow and The Killer. Reception from western critics was more positive, many critics. In 2007, a game sequel titled Stranglehold was released. In a tea house in Hong Kong, Officer Tequila Yuen and his partner Benny, after an ambush from another gang member, a fierce gun battle breaks out. The gangsters are defeated but several officers are badly wounded. Angered by the death of his partner, Tequila decides to kill the gangster who ambushed them rather than arrest him and this angers his boss, Officer Superintendent Pang, who wanted the gangster alive to testify. Tequila is subsequently ordered off the case for his misdemeanor, elsewhere, a high-ranking assassin, Alan, works for Triad boss Uncle Hoi. Alan murders a member of Hois gang, who had been working for Johnny Wongs rival syndicate. Wong is impressed by Alans skill and attempts to recruit him, Alan reluctantly turns against Hoi when Wong conducts a raid on Hois arsenal at a warehouse. At the warehouse, Wongs men kill Hois workers and destroy his stock, when Hoi arrives, Wong demands Alan kill Hoi, which he does, along with the rest of Hois men. Just then, smoke grenades explode and Tequila attacks, Alan covers Wongs escape as Tequila battles and kills most of the gangsters. In the end, Tequila finds himself confronting Alan face to face in the smoke, Tequila tries to shoot Alan, but finds he is out of ammo. Although he has a chance to kill Tequila, Alan slowly lowers his gun, at the police station, Pang confirms that Alan is actually an undercover cop. Tequila tracks Alan down to his sailboat to try to sense of the situation

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Lydia Shum
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Lydia Shum Din-ha or Lydia Sum was a Hong Kong comedian, MC, and actress known for her portly figure, signature dark rimmed glasses and bouffant hairstyle. She was affectionately known to peers and fans as Fei-fei and she appeared in numerous Hong Kong films and was an iconic TVB entertainer over forty years. For a brief spell in the 1990s, Shum left TVB to work at rival ATV, Shum was born in 1945 in Shanghai to Sung Shen Gee and Sung Tan Sun. She entered the Hong Kong entertainment industry at the age of 13 in 1958 and she made her film debut in 1960, joining Shaw Brothers as a teenage actress at the age of 15. She took some time to adjust to Hong Kong as she found the Cantonese cuisine very different from that of her native Shanghai, while she worked at Shaw Brothers, her popularity grew and she became one of the first stakeholders in the up-and-coming TV broadcast station TVB. In 1967, Shums stardom took off with the television variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight. She first sang in the Cantopop group the Four Golden Flowers, later, she played a Shanghai woman in the 1970s. She also sang as the partner of Roman Tam from 1971 to 1973, by August 1972 she was sufficiently regarded to be one of the first Chinese to ceremonially ride through the Cross-Harbour Tunnel on its opening day. TVB general manager Stephen Chan has said there was no substitute for Lydia Shum. Her openness to appearing in sport bikinis and ballet costumes despite her weight earned her respect in image-conscious Hong Kong, Shum has been established mainly as a comic and dramatic actress but is not limited to films in those genres. Kung fu fans will recognize her from her role as Yuen Cheung-Yans dominating wife in the film Drunken Tai Chi and she also appeared as Richard Ngs wife in the all-star comedy Millionaires Express, as well as a major role in Its a Mad Mad World. Her 1997 film Fitness Tour is utilized her weight for its plot and she took a leave from her movie career in 1997, and hosted a talk show in Hong Kong, along with numerous telethons and variety shows on TVB. She returned to films in 2004 with the comedy In-Laws Outlaws, Shum starred in Singapores Channel 5 sitcom Living with Lydia and Cantonese series like Slim Chances. Her performance in Living with Lydia won her the Best Comedy Performance by an Actress award at the 2003 Asian Television Awards and it was also the first time she had acted in an English sitcom with a multi-camera format though a laugh track was used. Shum married actor and singer Adam Cheng Siu-chow in January 1985 after 11 years of cohabitation, prior to the marriage, in December 1984, Shum was asked by her good friend Lee Xiang Qin to fly to San Francisco for the opening ceremony of Lees shop. Shum, who was in Taiwan with Cheng at the time, was reluctant to do so initially, when she returned to Taiwan, she heard rumors that Cheng was having an affair. Upon being asked about this, Cheng denied having a relationship with another woman, Shum believed that a marriage would deter any woman from becoming close to Cheng. On 5 January 1985, Cheng and Shum flew to Vancouver, due to the hurried circumstances of their marriage and Shums size, there was insufficient time to prepare for a wedding gown, so Shum wore a Chinese cheongsam instead

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Swordsman II
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Swordsman II, also known as The Legend of the Swordsman, is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film very loosely adapted from Louis Chas novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. It was the part of a trilogy, preceded by The Swordsman. Directed by Ching Siu-tung, Swordsman II starred Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund Kwan, none of the original cast from the previous film come back except Fennie Yuen. Linghu Chong, Yue Lingshan and members of the Mount Hua Sect are planning to retire from the jianghu and they learn that Dongfang Bubai has seized control of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and is secretly plotting with some Japanese rōnin to rebel against the Ming Empire and dominate China. Dongfang Bubai had castrated himself in order to master the skills in the Sunflower Manual, Linghu Chong meets Dongfang Bubai by chance without knowing his true identity, mistakes him for a beautiful young woman, and falls in love with her. Dongfang Bubai knocks out Linghu Chong while he is not looking, in the dungeon, by coincidence, Linghu Chong meets Ren Woxing, Ren Yingyings father and the former leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult. One night, while Linghu Chong is distracted by Dongfang Bubais lover Shishi, Dongfang tracks down his Mount Hua Sect fellows, Linghu Chong brings Yue Lingshan, Ren Yingying, Ren Woxing and Xiang Wentian with him to confront Dongfang Bubai at Black Woods Cliff. In the ensuing battle, Dongfang Bubai apparently dies after refusing Linghu Chongs help, Ren Woxing regains control of the cult and starts killing the traitors who defected to Dongfang Bubai. Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan secretly escape with help from Xiang Wentian, Jet Li as Linghu Chong, the most senior member in the Mount Hua Sect. Brigitte Lin as Dongfang Bubai, the leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult, the character is voiced by Faith Minton in English dubbed. Others claimed it was Sandahl Bergman and he was later voiced by Nicole Kidman after becoming female. Michelle Reis as Yue Lingshan, Linghu Chongs junior, Rosamund Kwan as Ren Yingying, Linghu Chongs love interest and Ren Woxings daughter. Waise Lee as Fubu Qianjun, the chief and Dongfang Bubais ally. Chin Kar-lok as Yuanfei Riyue, Fubu Qianjuns henchman, lau Shun as Xiang Wentian, an elder of the Sun Moon Holy Cult who remains loyal to Ren Woxing. Fennie Yuen as Lan Fenghuang, Ren Yingyings subordinate, yen Shi-kwan as Ren Woxing, the former leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult who was overthrown and imprisoned by Dongfang Bubai. Candice Yu as Shishi, Dongfang Bubais lover, cheung Kwok-leung as Eunuch Hong The United States version has nine minutes of the original film cut and was released under the title Legend of the Swordsman. It is dubbed in English and retains the music score. The Hong Kong version is in Cantonese and it retains the nine minutes of extended footage and it has some different music scores and features Jet Lis original voice

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Tony Leung Chiu-wai
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai is a Hong Kong actor and C-pop singer. He was the winner of Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor for his role in Wong Kar-wais film In the Mood for Love, Leung is also a seven-time winner of Hong Kong Film Award and three-time winner of Golden Horse Film Awards. Leung also stars in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films, including A City of Sadness, Cyclo and Lust, Caution, Leung also stars in Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated film Hero. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad, Leung was born in Hong Kong. Leungs early childhood was punctuated with parents quarrels and arguments about money, a mischievous boy in his early years, Leungs personality changed when his father, a chronic gambler, left the family when he was eight, he and his younger sister were brought up by their mother. Leung was a reticent, quiet child and he has said that his childhood experiences paved the way for his acting career, which allows him to openly express his feelings, You dont know what happened, just one day your pop disappears. And from that day on I try not to communicate with anyone, im so afraid to talk to my classmates, afraid that if someone says something about family I wont know what to do. So thats why I love acting, because I can express all my feelings the way I couldnt for so long, and then when I went to TV it all came out, I cried and I wasnt ashamed. The audience thinks its the characters feelings, but really its my feelings, Leung went to private school, but he quit at the age of 15 due to financial difficulties. He was a teenager who was very close to his mother. During an interview on the making of Hero, he says that he sees his mother as his definition of a hero for having brought up two children alone. After quitting his studies, Leung worked in a variety of jobs, first as a runner at his uncles shop. Around the age of 16 he met actor and comedian Stephen Chow who influenced his decision to become an actor. In 1982, he passed the courses of television channel TVB. Due to his looks, TVB cast him as host of a childrens programme,430 Space Shuttle. Leung enjoyed comedies during his years, it was for these he became well known. So, in the 1980s, he was named as one of TVBs Five Tigers along with Andy Lau, Felix Wong, Michael Miu, Leung starred in the highly successful Police Cadet TV serial in 1984. Since then they have worked together on The Yangs Saga, Days of Being Wild, Ashes of Time, In the Mood for Love, Hero, interviewed by Wong Kar Wai, Leung said that he considered Maggie to be his alter ego